“My friend use to answer a phone line for a 1-800 number and his boss would be furious when his out of state girlfriend called since all long distance charges get deferred to the owner of the number. If people call the 1-877 number to complain, then Troy will have to pay, literally, for his intolerance.”

But somehow Consumerist.com can call people “cock smokers” and that’s not homophobic. What a cool trick – associate people you find distasteful with a homosexual activity in order to put them down, and that’s o.k. Or are you associating such behavior with heterosexual women to give weight to your putdown? It gets so complex…